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My Entire Career as a Coder in China [Reivew]

Algorithm

  • I - Array & Hashing
    • Deterministic Finite State Machine / Automaton
    • 2 Pointers
      • Binary Search
        • Sorting
        • Searching
        • Divide and Conquer
      • Sliding Window
    • Stack
    • Queues
  • II - Linked Lists
    • Single Linked Lists
    • Double Linked Lists
    • Ring linked Lists
  • III - Tree
    • Binary Tree
    • Tries[Prefix Tree]
    • Heap
    • Back Tracking
  • IV - Graphs
    • BFS
    • DFS
  • V - Dynamic Programming
    • Greedy Algorithms
  • VI - Bitwise
  • VII - Time Complexity
    • Understanding of Big-O notation and how to optimize solutions.

System Design

  • Distributed Systems
    • Load balancing
    • replication
    • sharding
    • consistency models
    • CDN
  • Storage Systems
    • SQL vs NoSQL
    • databases (e.g., Cassandra, DynamoDB)
    • file systems
  • Caching Strategies
    • Cache invalidation
    • distributed caches like Redis or Memcached
  • Scalability
    • Horizontal vs Vertical scaling
    • message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
  • High Availability and Fault Tolerance
    • Data replication
    • fail over strategies
    • consensus protocols (like Paxos, Raft)

Behavioral Interview

STAR

Knowledge of Specific Technologies and Tools

  • os hypervisor
    • KVM is a hypervisor
    • QEMU or Cloud Hypervisor are vm manager utilizing KVM as hypervisor.
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Ansible

Scenario-Based Problem-Solving

SRE

  • Docker
    • fundamental engine basic
      • linux kernel namespace
        • Namespaces for fundamental Isolation
        • IPC - Inter-process communication
          • Signals
          • Anonymous Pipes
          • Named Pipes or FIFOs
        • Network
        • Mount
        • PID
        • User
        • UTS
        • Cgroup
        • System Call
          • CLONE
          • UNSHARE
          • SETNS
      • linux kernel control group
        • use Cgroup to do Resource Management
        • CPU
        • blkio
        • memory
        • device
        • freezer
      • linux union file system
        • Union File Systems for Layered Storage
        • manage layers in the container images
        • OverlayFS and AUFS.

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